Python Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -27 0 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 185 416 354
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.98% 9.78% 10.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.36% 29.48% 25.76%
Number of salaries quoted 103 198 213
10th Percentile £40,262 £41,732 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,563 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £71,875 £79,688 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,750 £100,000 £90,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £63,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.80% +10.87% -4.17%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 590 1,411 1,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.88% 33.18% 41.85%
Number of salaries quoted 425 814 955
10th Percentile £33,250 £38,536 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +6.15% -5.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £88,250
South East median annual salary £56,687 £59,125 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.12% +7.50% -4.35%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Python job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -37 85 £47,520 -32.11% 75
Oxfordshire -2 53 £65,000 +8.33% 82
Buckinghamshire -8 47 £60,000 +6.67% 36
Python
South East

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.08%) CMS
2 2 (1.08%) Confluence
3 1 (0.54%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.54%) Appian
3 1 (0.54%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (10.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.78%) MadCap Flare
3 2 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.54%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 60 (32.43%) AWS
2 53 (28.65%) Azure
3 44 (23.78%) Power Platform
4 32 (17.30%) GCP
5 23 (12.43%) Amazon EC2
6 22 (11.89%) Serverless
7 19 (10.27%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (9.73%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (8.11%) GitHub
10 10 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (3.78%) dbt
11 7 (3.78%) Google Analytics
11 7 (3.78%) Google Docs
12 6 (3.24%) Azure AI
12 6 (3.24%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (3.24%) SaaS
12 6 (3.24%) Snowflake
13 5 (2.70%) Amazon S3
13 5 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.86%) DNS
2 8 (4.32%) Firewall
3 4 (2.16%) Broadband
3 4 (2.16%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.16%) Wireless
4 3 (1.62%) DHCP
4 3 (1.62%) HTTP
4 3 (1.62%) Internet
5 2 (1.08%) 5G
5 2 (1.08%) FTP
5 2 (1.08%) InfiniBand
5 2 (1.08%) LAN
5 2 (1.08%) SMTP
5 2 (1.08%) SSH
5 2 (1.08%) WAN
6 1 (0.54%) 4G
6 1 (0.54%) Modbus
6 1 (0.54%) MQTT
6 1 (0.54%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.54%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (22.16%) Power BI
2 27 (14.59%) Relational Database
3 25 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (12.97%) BigQuery
5 18 (9.73%) RDBMS
5 18 (9.73%) Tableau
6 15 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (5.41%) Metadata
8 7 (3.78%) SQL Server
9 5 (2.70%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.70%) Qlik Sense
10 4 (2.16%) MySQL
11 3 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.62%) Data Hub
11 3 (1.62%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.62%) Looker
11 3 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (1.08%) Airbyte
12 2 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.08%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 31 (16.76%) Jenkins
2 22 (11.89%) Git
3 18 (9.73%) JMeter
3 18 (9.73%) JUnit
3 18 (9.73%) Mockito
4 9 (4.86%) JIRA
5 6 (3.24%) GitLab
5 6 (3.24%) Selenium
6 4 (2.16%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.16%) MLflow
6 4 (2.16%) Postman
6 4 (2.16%) SoapUI
6 4 (2.16%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.62%) Burp Suite
7 3 (1.62%) Metasploit
8 2 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.08%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.54%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.54%) MSBuild
General
1 59 (31.89%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.68%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (15.14%) Law
3 28 (15.14%) Marketing
4 23 (12.43%) Finance
5 22 (11.89%) Public Sector
6 15 (8.11%) Manufacturing
7 10 (5.41%) Retail
8 8 (4.32%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.70%) Legal
11 4 (2.16%) Retail Finance
12 3 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.08%) Banking
13 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.08%) Multimedia
13 2 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (1.08%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.54%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 33 (17.84%) Developer
2 26 (14.05%) Analyst
3 24 (12.97%) Architect
3 24 (12.97%) Senior
4 20 (10.81%) Cloud Architect
4 20 (10.81%) GCP Architect
4 20 (10.81%) Java Developer
4 20 (10.81%) Platform Architect
5 18 (9.73%) Full-Stack Developer
6 17 (9.19%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 15 (8.11%) Mid-Level Java Developer
7 15 (8.11%) Software Engineer
8 11 (5.95%) Data Analyst
9 10 (5.41%) Lead
10 8 (4.32%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (4.32%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 8 (4.32%) Data Engineer
11 7 (3.78%) Author
11 7 (3.78%) Junior
11 7 (3.78%) Technical Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (16.22%) REST
2 21 (11.35%) HTML
3 20 (10.81%) JSON
3 20 (10.81%) Spring
3 20 (10.81%) Spring Boot
4 19 (10.27%) Web Services
4 19 (10.27%) XML
5 18 (9.73%) ActiveMQ
5 18 (9.73%) Apache Camel
5 18 (9.73%) Hibernate
5 18 (9.73%) jQuery
5 18 (9.73%) WireMock
6 12 (6.49%) .NET
7 11 (5.95%) SOAP
8 6 (3.24%) Middleware
8 6 (3.24%) React
9 5 (2.70%) Lightning Web Components
9 5 (2.70%) PyTorch
9 5 (2.70%) Visualforce
10 4 (2.16%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.51%) Cloud Native
2 19 (10.27%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.78%) Algorithms
4 6 (3.24%) Life Science
5 5 (2.70%) IoT
5 5 (2.70%) SCADA
5 5 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.16%) Industry 4.0
6 4 (2.16%) Learning Management System
6 4 (2.16%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 3 (1.62%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.62%) Animation
7 3 (1.62%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.62%) Replication
8 2 (1.08%) Hackathon
8 2 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.08%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.54%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.54%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.54%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (16.22%) Linux
2 11 (5.95%) Unix
2 11 (5.95%) Windows
3 3 (1.62%) Kali Linux
4 2 (1.08%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (1.08%) VMS
5 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.54%) VxWorks
5 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (31.35%) Agile
2 56 (30.27%) Analytics
3 48 (25.95%) CI/CD
4 44 (23.78%) Business Intelligence
5 36 (19.46%) Roadmaps
6 35 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 33 (17.84%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (17.30%) Data Science
8 32 (17.30%) Mentoring
9 30 (16.22%) Strategic Roadmap
10 29 (15.68%) DevOps
11 28 (15.14%) Cloud Security
11 28 (15.14%) SDLC
12 25 (13.51%) AI
12 25 (13.51%) ETL
13 24 (12.97%) Computer Science
13 24 (12.97%) Full-Stack Development
13 24 (12.97%) Performance Optimisation
14 23 (12.43%) Cost Management
14 23 (12.43%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 71 (38.38%) SQL
2 57 (30.81%) Java
3 40 (21.62%) JavaScript
4 26 (14.05%) Go
5 21 (11.35%) Shell Script
6 18 (9.73%) Bash
7 14 (7.57%) C#
7 14 (7.57%) C++
7 14 (7.57%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (3.24%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (2.70%) Apex Code
10 5 (2.70%) C
10 5 (2.70%) Perl
10 5 (2.70%) PHP
11 4 (2.16%) Fortran
11 4 (2.16%) R
11 4 (2.16%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.16%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.62%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 42 (22.70%) Degree
2 27 (14.59%) Security Cleared
3 13 (7.03%) Master's Degree
4 12 (6.49%) Azure Certification
5 10 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.86%) SC Cleared
7 6 (3.24%) PhD
8 5 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (2.16%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.62%) MCSE
10 3 (1.62%) OSCP
10 3 (1.62%) RHCE
11 2 (1.08%) ACCA
11 2 (1.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (1.08%) CIMA
11 2 (1.08%) LPIC
11 2 (1.08%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.54%) CREST Certified
12 1 (0.54%) GPEN
12 1 (0.54%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.32%) QA
3 5 (2.70%) GDPR
4 3 (1.62%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.62%) ECSS
4 3 (1.62%) NIST
5 1 (0.54%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.54%) GxP
5 1 (0.54%) HIPAA
System Software
1 36 (19.46%) Docker
2 4 (2.16%) vCloud
3 3 (1.62%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.08%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.08%) GPFS
4 2 (1.08%) Lustre
4 2 (1.08%) NFS
4 2 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (30.27%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.27%) Kibana
3 13 (7.03%) Ansible
3 13 (7.03%) Terraform
4 4 (2.16%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (2.16%) Kubeflow
4 4 (2.16%) Rundeck
5 3 (1.62%) Argo
5 3 (1.62%) Grafana
5 3 (1.62%) Nmap
5 3 (1.62%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.54%) Control-M
6 1 (0.54%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.54%) SCCM
6 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.54%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.54%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (16.76%) Google
2 19 (10.27%) Dynatrace
3 18 (9.73%) Splunk
4 11 (5.95%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.78%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.24%) Databricks
6 6 (3.24%) VMware
7 5 (2.70%) Allen-Bradley
7 5 (2.70%) MuleSoft
7 5 (2.70%) Siemens
8 3 (1.62%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.62%) SAP
8 3 (1.62%) Talend
9 2 (1.08%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.08%) Aruba
9 2 (1.08%) Cognos
9 2 (1.08%) HubSpot
9 2 (1.08%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.08%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.08%) Zoho